Lakeside Chautauqua welcomes the Rev. Joy A. Schroeder

LAKESIDE – Lakeside Chautauqua welcomes the Rev. Joy A. Schroeder as chaplain during the week of June 22 through 27.

Schroeder will lead the 94th annual Lutheran Chautauqua Week and the Hoover Community Worship Service at 10:30 a.m. Sunday in Hoover Auditorium. Her sermon, “The Value of Sparrows,” is based on Matthew 10: 24-39.

For those who wish to attend worship, a complimentary church pass is available Sundays between 7:30 and 10:30 a.m. and is valid until 3 p.m. The pass includes admittance for guests and auto.

Schroeder also will preach at 9:15 a.m. Monday through Friday for Chaplain’s Hour in Orchestra Hall. Friday will include a question-and-answer session.

Her overall Chaplain’s Hour theme for the week will be “Wild Women and Wild Men: Unconventional Heroes of the Bible.”

A complimentary Chaplain’s Hour pass is available from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, which admits guests and auto.

At 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Schroeder will lead evening prayer and praise at the Steele Memorial Bandstand.

Schroeder is a professor of church history at Capital University and Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus. She is the first joint-appointed faculty between these institutions.

In addition to teaching church history, Schroeder is the author of numerous articles on the history of Biblical interpretation and the history of women in Christianity. She is especially interested in exploring how women have interpreted the Bible through the centuries.

Schroeder is a frequent contributor to “Gather,” a magazine for the women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Her most recent book, “Deborah’s Daughters: Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation,” explains the ways Christians and Jews used the Biblical account of the prophet Deborah (Judges 4-5) for two millennia against women, for women, and by women who aspired to leadership roles in church, synagogue and society.

Schroeder earned a bachelor of arts degree from Luther College, a master’s of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and an master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Notre Dame.

She is a member of the North American Patristic Society, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Society of Biblical Literature and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.

A Lutheran pastor, Schroeder has served parishes in Davenport, Iowa, and South Bend, Indiana.

Her husband, John Birkner, is a Presbyterian minister. They have been married for 28 years. She enjoys camping, kayaking and translating Medieval Latin commentaries on the Bible.